7 Economic Control and Totalitarianism Planners who have seriously considered how to make planning work know that it must be under dictatorial conditions. The argument
6 Planning and the Rule of Law The Rule of Law is that the government is bound in all its actions by rules fixed and
5 Planning and Democracy Adam Smith paraphrase: The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in how they should employ their capital, would not
4 The “Inevitability” of Planning The usual tactic of planners is to say, not that planning is desirable, but to say it is necessary since
Change of plans. I had said I’d post two chapters each time, but since I’m writing so much on this, I think I’d better keep
This book was written in 1944 by Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian economist. It is addressed to: The socialists of all parties, and attempts to explain
Reading Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal right now. The majority of this is copied directly from the first essay in the collection- What is
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